Grand Theft Auto VI Reportedly Won't Release Until 2024 or 2025 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 July 2021 / 2,601 Views
Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto V nearly eight years ago in September 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, followed by a release on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in November 2014, and for PC in April 215. The game is getting released on the next-generation consoles - the Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 - on November 11, 2021.
Fans of the Grand Theft Auto series has been eagerly awaiting Grand Theft Auto VI, however, according to insider Tom Henderson fans will need to wait at least a few more years. Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier corroborated what Henderson has claimed.
The insider says Grand Theft Auto VI won't release until 2024 or 2025 as Rockstar Games is focused on the well-being of its developers. It will also only release on the Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC and Rockstar wants the new consoles to have a higher install base.
Grand Theft Auto VI is set in a modern day Vice City with the primary reason that it gives Rockstar more freedom with Grand Theft Auto Online DLC, according to Henderson.
The world size isn't going to be that big at launch, however, over time it will be expanded with new locations. He compares the changes to how the Fortnite map changes with every new season.
The game will feature multiple protagonists like in Grand Theft Auto V with one of them being female. The female is going to be the bright one in the group and will be responsible for the technical stuff like hacking.
Idk why everyone thinks that I said GTA VI was coming in 2023. Everything Tom Henderson has said about the game matches up with what I've heard
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) July 4, 2021
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I get that we might have to wait another 3 or 4 years for a new GTA, but what has been stopping Rockstar from making more games? From the launch of GTA V to today, they've only released RDR2, a remaster of L.A. Noire and a bunch of GTA V online updates.
Of course it won't, GTA V is the most financially successful entertainment product of all time. Not just games, but of any entertainment product. People are still buying the game today!
i expected more from them than 2 games in 10 years considering they have 9 different studios and 2,000+ employees
4300 employees
All I've wanted from Rockstar for a decade now is a modern return to Vice City. Let me live out my Drive fantasy! The idea of it becoming more and more GTA Online-centric is certainly concerning, though...
Rockstar games are always delayed. So this should read 2025 or 2026.
I miss the ps2 era. We would have had 5 rockstar games since gta5.
Well I don't plan on playing it until the 11th gen re-remaster anyway.
So 3-4 years away and won't even be that big on release. These AAA makers really know how to do it these days don't they haha
Not sure where you got the idea that it won't be that big on release. They have a pretty good-great track record with the GTA games, so I'm gonna give 'em the benefit of the doubt that GTA 6 will be a good-great game on release.
edit- Ok, I somehow missed the part of the article where they said it "won't be that big at launch." I still think it will be an awesome game though. Just hope we don't have to pay for the added locations on top of the new $70 price tag on games.
They've groomed the kids into the idea that gta is an online game, so that when they release the initial gta6, which will have a shorter story and campaign but heavy multiplayer focus, they are eased into it naturally.
I can understand why dan houser left. Now it's time for sam to leave.
So 2024/25 will likely be towards the end of the current new console cycle, just like how V launched at the end if the PS3/360 era. Feels a bit strange for a series like GTA to go whole console cycles without a new release.
And GTA7 will be well into the 2030's launching on PS7 no doubt. Think about that. Between PS4, PS5, and PS6 (and the respective Xbox consoles) there will only be one new GTA game haha.
GTA3, GTA VC and GTA SA=3 years. GTA4 and GTA5=13 years and counting.
That's just madness.
Between this and TES VI and previously with Starfield, I'm getting big "new wave marketing" vibes, because no one can be this stupid per company, to market something years and years prior, then per year, per journalist, say "don't expect our game till 20xx, yada yada".
All this does is make me ask "is your game gonna be god's gift to man, since you're taking far longer than most?", because GTA V by all technicalities was a PS3/360 game, then ported to last gen, and we haven't had a new ES game (not counting the MMO set well outside the main timeline) since the PS3/360 gen, again, funny how both GTA and ES haven't had much new since then and we're already in the 20's and still being told their next games are far off.
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